Announced at the anime's Saturday event
An event for the television anime based on Akihiro Ononaka's Gushing Over Magical Girls (Mahō Shōjo ni Akogarete) manga announced with a trailer on Saturday that production on a second season had been greenlit.
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J-Novel Club licensed the manga and describes the story:
Hello, I'm Hiiragi Utena. I'm a normal magic-loving middle school girl—or at least I was, but then some talking mascot suddenly appeared and cast a spell on me! Now is my chance to join my beloved magical girls as… a villain? Wait, something's wrong with my outfit! This cannot happen!
Watch this shy magical girl transform into a brutal dominatrix! When good and evil collide, who will be the one to obey?
The anime's main cast includes:
Tadato Suzuki (Fruits Basket 2019 episode director) and Atsushi Ootsuki (Kanokon: The Girl Who Cried Fox, Motto To Love Ru) directed the first part at Asahi Production. Noboru Kimura (Gundam Build Divers, Skate-Leading Stars) is in charge of the series scripts and Yasuka Ōtaki (A Galaxy Next Door) is designing the characters. Satoshi Motoyama (16bit Sensation: Another Layer, Dragon Ball Z Kai) is the anime's sound director, Yasuharu Takanashi (BASTARD!!-Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy-), Akinari Suzuki (Giant Beasts of Ars) and Johannes Nilsson (Bakugan : Evolutions) is in charge of music and Lantis is in charge of music production.
The first season premiered on AT-X on January 3 at 11:30 p.m. JST (9:30 a.m. EST) and it also runs on Tokyo MX, BS11, Sun TV and KBS Kyoto. The anime has three different versions: the television broadcast version, the “aircast” version on streaming services, and the “superstream” version on Blu-ray discs and DVDs. The broadcast television version censors sound and images, the “broadcast” version censors sound and some images, and the “super broadcast” version is also uncensored.
HIDIVE streamed the anime as it aired in Japan, and has a “broadcast” version of the series available for streaming.
Ononaka launched the ongoing manga in 2019 in Takeshobo's Manga Life Storia magazine. After the magazine ceased publication, the manga was moved to the magazine's Storia Dash website. The manga went on hiatus in March due to Ononaka's unspecified illness.
Source: Press release
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